Senate

Senate resolution is being circulated, seeking the "de facto dismissal" of the impeachment complaint against Vice President Duterte without subjecting her to a trial.

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"As teachers and scholars of the law, we believe that the Senate's dismissal without hearing even a single witness will mean its abandonment of its proud tradition as an august chamber and permanently alter our system of checks and balances. It will also undermine the people's trust in the Senate as an independent and impartial institution before which the highest officials of the land may demonstrate and prove their fealty to the principles of accountability, public service, and democracy," the faculty members of UP College of Law said.

'No case dismissal without trial' The Senate cannot legally dismiss the impeachment case against Vice President Duterte without holding a trial, one of the framers of the 1987 Constitution said yesterday.